at Florissant Valley and Meramec. Blood Done Sign My Name is a classic work of conscience, a defining portrait of a time and place that we will never forget. Tim Tyson's riveting narrative of that fiery summer and one family's struggle to build bridges in a time of destruction brings gritty blues truth, soaring gospel vision, and down-home humor to our complex history, where violence and faith, courage and evil, despair and hope all mingle to illuminate America's enduring chasm of race.

African History - Online Sources

Credo Reference is an online database which provides access to a growing selection of reference books such as subject encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Credo has tapped into its own content to create this useful guide:

African History - Databases

The Libraries' databases American Mosaic, Black Studies Center and Oxford African American Studies Center all have timelines and other information on African history. World History in Context also contains information on the history of Africa beginning before 500 AD up to the 20th century.

Collection of African American reference materials including Africana and the new Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895. Fully searchable.

The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 7,500 articles by top scholars in the field. The core content includes Africana, a five volume account of the African and African American experience, along with other Oxford works on African American history and biography. The Center includes biographies, over 3,000 topical articles, primary source documents with specially written commentaries, approximately 1,000 images, 90 country and territory maps, over 100 charts and tables, thematic timelines, and an editorially selected and annotated list of publicly available web sites. Users can search and browse by subject category and era.

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Features extensive coverage of the 20th century, the Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Near East and Asia as well as the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the modern Middle East and Latin America. History Resource Center: World moves chronologically from antiquity to the present and geographically around the globe. Provides integrated searching of full-text periodicals, reference works, primary documents and scholarly analysis.

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Explores the history and culture of African Americans and the greater Black Diaspora.

The African American Experience includes new material from major multivolume print reference sets as well as older reference books and monographs, many now available in electronic format for the first time. It also includes primary documents (such as manuscripts, speeches, court cases, quotations, advertisements, statistics, and other papers), over 4,000 searchable interviews from the WPA Slave Narratives, and black scholarship from the late 1700s to the early 1970s.

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African History - Books

STLCC Libraries have many books on the continent's history and that of particular countries. In the search box below, try a subject search for Africa - History or for a particular country, e.g. Angola - History. Below the box are just a couple I've found edifying.